Introducing... Everything Kids Link and Pin Party

Welcome to a brand new party for bloggers! It’s called Everything Kids, because that’s what it’s about. Bloggers can share their latest kids’ crafts and activities, family-friendly recipes, and parenting posts. If you’re not a blogger, you can scroll down to take a look at all the fun new ideas! 

Everything Kids will be a hybrid of a link party and a Pinterest party. That means you’ll get the best of both worlds.

Meet Your Hostesses

Books and Giggles Blog-Pinterest-Instagram-Facebook-Twitter

Play Dough & Popsicles Blog-Pinterest- Instagram-Facebook-Twitter 

Hostess Features

When we weren’t busy putting together this new party this past week, we were working hard on these fun crafts and activities.

From Books and Giggles:
How to Make a Pete the Cat Inspired Valentine Box, and 
Indoor Activities for Kids: Let's Play Library!

From Play Dough & Popsicles: 

Stamps & Play Dough Learning Activity, and 

Our Valentine Box Inspired by a Children's Book

All About Everything Kids

What’s the Same

If you’ve been visiting our previous party, Made for Kids, you’ll find some things still the same. You can still link up the same types of posts, plus we’ve added parenting to the list. We’ll still be commenting on our favorites, and you still have a chance to be featured.

What’s New

The biggest change is that we’ll all be pinning your posts like crazy! Your hostesses will be pinning this week’s posts. You’ll be re-pinning your favorite 3 pins from last week. We’ll all be commenting on our favorites.

How It Works – From Your Point of View

You’ll link up your posts in inLinkz by clicking the blue button at the bottom of this post. Take a look at the new linkups and comment on your favorite if you have time. 

Then, you’ll return to this page for the "pin" part of the party. You can go to our board, or pin straight from the widget below.  

Choose and re-pin your favorite 3 pins, and if you have time leave at least 1 comment too. 3 Pins are required. Comments are optional but encouraged.

How It Works – From Our Point of View

We have two different Everything Kids Pinterest boards that we’ll alternate. I know, that seems, umm, a little unusual, but bear with me here as I explain. 

Every week, we’ll go through the linkup and pin each post that fits our guidelines (listed below). We’ll pin them onto the board for the next week. 

The Pinterest board featured in today’s post features pins from last week (We used the final week of Made for Kids to start off). We’ll look to see what has the most re-pins by the end of the week. Next week, we’ll feature the top two, plus two hostess favorites as well.

Hostess Favorites

From here on out there will be two features. One will be the post with the most re-pins, plus a second that's my favorite. Today, they're just two of my favorites. 

First up is a fantastic round - 20 Must Try STEM Activities for Valentine's Day from The Science Kiddo.

Next, I really love this Slippery Lego Duplo Fine Motor Practice from Best Toys 4 Toddlers. It's a fun and engaging way to sneak in some fine motor work.

Be sure to check out Playdough & Popsicles to see her favorite picks!

If you were featured, grab a badge and attach to your post with pride. Your post is loved!!

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Guidelines and Rules

We'd love to see your favorite posts focused on kids ages 0-9 that fit into the following categories:

• Crafts for kids
• Activities to do with kids
• Learning activities
• Family-friendly recipes
• Parenting

We'll pin most posts that have a vertical, pinnable image. We won't be pinning homeschool printable packs, but you're welcome to share them on the linkup.   

We have some simple rules…

1. Link up to 3 of your own posts
2. Re-pin 3 pins from the Everything Kids Pinterest board featured in this post.

…and a few more detailed rules

3. Please follow your hostesses on social media
4. You may re-pin each of your own pins once, but that doesn’t count as part of your 3 required re-pins.
5. No pinning your own pins to multiple boards before the next week’s top pins are announced. That would be cheating.
6. Please only link up posts in the categories described in the guidelines above.
7. By entering your link, you are giving us permission to feature an image on our blogs and social media. Proper credit will always be given.

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Linkup your Posts

 

An InLinkz Link-up

Re-Pin Your Favorites

To kick off Everything Kids, we’ve pinned a bunch of our favorites from last week’s Made for Kids linkup. That way we get to “begin as we mean to continue” and it’s easier for you to understand what you’ll be doing every week.

    Re-pin your favorites on the Everything Kids board on Pinterest.     

Questions? 

If you have any questions about this new format, or any comments at all about this all new link and pin party, please let us know, either in a comment below or via our social media.   We can’t wait to see and share all your posts!